Chapter Summaries

Five years later, Chen Lin completed the Myriad Souls Animating Technique and brought the Purple Spirit Ring through its tribulation, but a gray-robed Spirit Transformation cultivator attacked to seize the technique. Chen Lin and Grass killed the intruder and escaped; back in his Immortal Cave, Chen Lin began searching the man’s belongings and found a fortune in his first Storage Bag.

• Chen Lin took the trembling Purple Spirit Ring into the wilderness, prepared several formations, and began the final steps of the Myriad Souls Animating Technique.
• As the Purple Spirit Ring endured its lightning tribulation, Chen Lin sensed someone spying and prepared to teleport away after the final bolt.
• A gray-robed mid Spirit Transformation cultivator attacked Chen Lin, but the Three-Color Tribulation split and struck the intruder as well.
• Chen Lin hit the injured intruder with a golden beam, and Grass killed him with a sword strike that destroyed his soul.
• Chen Lin collected the completed Purple Spirit Ring and the intruder’s belongings, then teleported with Grass to the underground chamber where his Shadow Puppet guarded the formation.
• Back in his Immortal Cave, Chen Lin opened the first of the intruder’s Storage Bags and found mostly Top-Grade Spirit Stones and more than a hundred spirit crystals; he grew excited as he opened the second bag.

Chen Lin examined the treasures taken from a dead Spirit Transformation cultivator and discovered the Mysterious Yin Canon, a complete cultivation path that he suspected was connected to Xuanyinzi. He kept the canon unused, claimed several useful treasures, and was about to resume secluded cultivation when an unexpected message arrived.

• Chen Lin found that one Storage Bag held yin-attribute materials and that another contained the Mysterious Yin Canon, a cultivation technique spanning Yin Foundation to Dao Integration.
• Chen Lin suspected the Mysterious Yin Canon was linked to Xuanyinzi and the favors he had received, but chose not to practice it after the Fate Screen failed to reveal its destiny lines.
• Chen Lin claimed a black flying boat and an inheritance for refining the Netherworld Ghost Claw, then kept the Purple Spirit Ring for his own use.
• Chen Lin tested the Purple Spirit Ring outside the city and confirmed that it could restrain enemies, strike as a hoop, and form a defensive Light Curtain.
• Chen Lin checked Luo Xiaoyu's cultivation and prepared to resume seclusion, but received an unexpected message before he could begin.

Chen Lin refused Xu Shanjing’s request to open the Demon-Suppressing Temple ruins and focused on completing his body-refining technique, though his Golden Body remained unfinished. After learning that a Qianyuan Sect elder had died in the ruins, he asked Luo Xiaoyu about the Nightmare Realm and learned that one explorer had returned from the Silver Button scenario.

• Xu Shanjing invited Chen Lin to use his Buddhist power to open a door in the Demon-Suppressing Temple ruins, but Chen Lin refused and later decided to monitor the ruins rather than investigate them.
• Chen Lin refined his Golden Bodhi Pills for years and reached the limit of the Vajra Body-Refining Art, but his brain and heart remained insufficient to complete his Golden Body.
• Chen Lin learned from Luo Xiaoyu that Elder Duan and a Qianyuan Sect Core Disciple had died in the ruins, prompting a spirit transformation expert to investigate.
• Luo Xiaoyu reported that only one person had returned from the Silver Button Nightmare Realm scenario, while the other explorers had disappeared.

Chen Lin learned that an elderly cultivator had survived exploring the patterned silver button’s Nightmare Realm scenario and questioned him about what he found. After the explorer and his children signed Bloodline Pacts to serve Chen Lin, Chen Lin tried to visit the Green-Scaled Tribe but found its headquarters still sealed by fog.

• Chen Lin went with Luo Xiaoyu to the estate and learned the returning explorer had a soul injury but showed no signs of Nightmare Transformation.
• Chen Lin questioned the explorer, Qi Chengliang, with the Soul-Seizing Technique and heard his account of the scenario.
• Qi Chengliang asked to bind his family to Chen Lin through a Bloodline Pact, and Chen Lin agreed to include Qi Dashan and Qi Qianxue.
• Chen Lin left Qi Chengliang and his children at the estate under Luo Xiaoyu’s supervision.
• Chen Lin visited the Green-Scaled Tribe’s headquarters to seek the promised Lamp-Lighting Fruits, but thick fog blocked his way in.

Chen Lin investigated the Silver Button Nightmare Realm scenario, sought information about the Green-Scaled Tribe, and arranged for Mu Fenglan’s letter to reach her family in Xuanyuan City. Three years later, he failed to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and decided to attend the Green-Scaled Gathering.

• Chen Lin considered Qi Chengliang’s account of the Silver Button scenario and asked Luo Xiaoyu to focus on exploring it.
• Chen Lin visited Qu Sanniang, learned that the Green-Scaled Tribe’s patriarch had been missing for five years, and remembered Mu Fenglan.
• Chen Lin paid for express delivery of Mu Fenglan’s letter and sent Mu Lianchuan the location of the space node leading to the Land of Divine Beings.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, resumed cultivating, and spent three years training Heavenly Thunder Nine Turns and Five Thunders Smite the Crown.
• Chen Lin failed several attempts to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and decided to attend the gathering.

Chen Lin attended a gathering expecting to buy an Infant Spirit Fruit, but learned it was actually a treasure-hunting expedition in the Fallen God Swamp. After hearing the terms, he considered joining despite the risks because he urgently needed to break through to the Nascent Soul middle stage.

• Chen Lin met Xu Shanjing at the gathering and rebuffed Qu Sanniang when she implied they were close.
• Xu Shanjing told Chen Lin that the ancient temple ruins contained a terrifying demonic monk remnant soul that had killed Nascent Soul Cultivators, so Chen Lin abandoned plans to investigate them.
• Xu Shanjing warned Chen Lin that Qu Sanniang had been the mistress of a Zhang Family Spirit Transformation Cultivator and might be using him as a shield against that cultivator's lawful wife.
• The hosts arrived, and a blue-robed elder announced that the Infant Spirit Fruit would be pursued in a treasure hunt rather than offered for sale.
• The elder said the expedition would search the Fallen God Swamp, where no monsters above the fourth rank lived, and promised Soul-Unlocking Pills, five spirit crystals per participant, and a share of any fruit beyond the hosts' three.

Chen Lin agreed to join the Zhang Family’s expedition to the Fallen God Swamp in search of Infant Spirit Fruits, while considering the dangers and his estate’s Silver Button Scenario research. After giving Luo Xiaoyu a pill for her Golden Core breakthrough, he met the group and departed with Elder Chu.

• Chen Lin joined Xu Shanjing and the other cultivators in the Zhang Family’s hunt for three Infant Spirit Fruits in the Fallen God Swamp.
• Chen Lin reviewed the Silver Button Scenario’s rules with Luo Xiaoyu and Grass, then rejected Luo Xiaoyu’s offer to test it because he did not want to risk her life.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Xiaoyu a Six-Pattern Seven-Star Pill and instructed her to prepare for her Golden Core breakthrough while he was away.
• Chen Lin met Xu Shanjing, Qu Sanniang, and the other participants outside the eastern city gate the next morning.
• Elder Chu arrived with two Zhang Family disciples, and the group boarded his Spirit Boat to depart for the Fallen God Swamp.

Chen Lin joined Elder Chu’s expedition into Fallen God Swamp to find Infant Spirit Fruit, while growing suspicious of Qu Sanniang’s role in the Zhang Family’s plans. As the group entered the toxic miasma, Qu Sanniang revealed that she was using the expedition to flee with her children and warned that a spirit transformation cultivator might be pursuing them.

• Chen Lin took one of his own Soul-Unlocking Pills, signed Elder Chu’s Spirit Pact, and learned that the group would split into teams to search a broad area for the Infant Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Elder Chu assigned Chen Lin to Xu Shanjing’s team, while Qu Sanniang stayed with the two Zhang Family disciples, leading Chen Lin to suspect that the remaining fruit was meant for her.
• After the Spirit Boat entered Fallen God Swamp, three hidden figures appeared; a plain-looking woman ordered two men to pursue the expedition and target Qu Sanniang and the Zhang Family disciples.
• Qu Sanniang contacted Chen Lin through Soul Transmission and admitted that the two Zhang Family disciples were her children and that she had planned the expedition as a chance to escape Qianyuan City.
• Qu Sanniang warned Chen Lin that her enemy, backed by the Yang Family, would send pursuers and might already have a spirit transformation cultivator near the Spirit Boat.

Chen Lin discovered that Qu Sanniang’s party was being pursued by Spirit Transformation cultivators and was drawn into a dangerous scheme aboard the Spirit Boat. As a Golden-Tailed Bee swarm attacked, he activated Qu Sanniang’s Buddhist Prayer Bead and threw it toward her side while keeping his Teleportation Jade Talisman ready.

• Chen Lin used his Spirit Eye Divine Ability to spot two figures concealed in the void beside the Spirit Boat, and Qu Sanniang told him they were Spirit Transformation cultivators protected from the swamp’s miasma by Top-Grade Soul-Unlocking Pills and spatial talismans.
• Qu Sanniang gave Chen Lin a Buddhist Prayer Bead and promised to reveal the Infant Spirit Fruit Tree’s true location after he helped activate it.
• The Spirit Boat stopped, and Elder Chu warned that a Golden-Tailed Bee swarm was approaching; the cultivators attacked the bees while the barrier shuddered under their corrosive explosions.
• Elder Chu activated the Spirit Boat’s Acceleration Formation as Qu Sanniang urgently told Chen Lin to throw the activated bead outside the barrier.
• Chen Lin channeled Buddhist power into the bead, kept his Teleportation Jade Talisman ready, and threw the bead toward Qu Sanniang’s side.

Chen Lin activated the Buddhist Prayer Beads, triggering a deadly ambush as Elder Chu revealed his betrayal and unleashed the Heretic God Blade. Chen Lin and Xu Shanjing tried to restrain one of its pursuing phantom blades, while Xu Shanjing prepared an Evil-Breaking Talisman and the old man drew a damaged Round Disc.

• Chen Lin activated the Buddhist Prayer Beads, and Qu Sanniang used their golden light to seal the void before Elder Chu blocked her escape and revealed the Heretic God Blade.
• Elder Chu sacrificed himself to unleash the Heretic God Blade, while Qu Sanniang burned her vitality to hold it back and used a bead to send the Two Siblings away at the cost of their cultivation.
• The Heretic God Blade killed a hidden spirit transformation cultivator and pursued Chen Lin and the fleeing cultivators, devouring a nascent soul after it killed one of Xu Shanjing's companions.
• Chen Lin used his Purple Ring and lightning technique to restrain and weaken the blade's phantom image, while Xu Shanjing began activating a High-Rank Evil-Breaking Talisman.
• The surviving old cultivator took out a damaged Round Disc as the group prepared to fight the blade.

Chen Lin and Xu Shanjing destroyed the Heretic God Blade’s phantom, but the true blade appeared and forced them to flee through Zhai’s unstable plane passage. Chen Lin escaped severely wounded after the blade killed Xu Shanjing and shattered his defenses.

• Zhai explained that the Heretic God Blade could pursue its targets across the void and activated his damaged Boundary-Breaking Disc to open a passage between planes.
• Xu Shanjing used his Advanced Evil-Breaking Talisman to erase the phantom blade while Chen Lin held it in place with the Purple Spirit Ring.
• The true Heretic God Blade emerged from the void and killed Xu Shanjing as he rushed toward the Bagua passage.
• Chen Lin activated Fortunate Art and charged into the passage, but the blade shattered his Xuanwu Shield and badly wounded him before he escaped.

After escaping the Heretic God Blade, Chen Lin found refuge in a cultivation plane, where Grass told him that Niuniu had sent a Straw Talisman from the Nightmare Realm. He used it to secure the Golden Toad’s favor and obtained a Fortune Orb, which he believed had increased his maximum qi luck capacity.

• Chen Lin escaped the Heretic God Blade into a wilderness plane, set up defenses, and began treating his injuries.
• Grass told Chen Lin that Niuniu had appeared in Guardian Hut Village, still chained, and had given her a Straw Talisman.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm and used the talisman to stop the Golden Toad from fining him for fishing.
• The Golden Toad gave Chen Lin a gift, and he caught a golden Treasure Chest before the Fortunate Art wore off.
• Chen Lin opened the chest in the Reality Realm and found a Fortune Orb, which he used and suspected had raised his maximum qi luck capacity.

Chen Lin recovered from the Heretic God Blade's sinister energy while enduring a constant stream of monster attacks on a vast island. After discovering a strange ship like one from the Huanling Lake nightmare realm, he tried to leave the island with Grass but was blocked by a Black-Robed Old Woman, whom they struck back against.

• Chen Lin and Grass spent a month fighting monster beasts, including a fifth-rank great monster, while he healed his injuries.
• Chen Lin concluded that the island belonged to a powerful plane and began exploring it with Grass, suspecting his bad luck backlash was bringing a steady stream of manageable dangers.
• Chen Lin spotted a great ship whose Bone Bird prow and damaged hull matched the ship from the Huanling Lake nightmare realm, then chose to avoid it.
• Chen Lin and Grass tried to escape underwater, but a barrier repelled them and a Black-Robed Old Woman appeared.
• The Black-Robed Old Woman attacked Chen Lin with a claw, but Chen Lin resisted her freezing aura and struck her with the Soul-Destroying Finger while Grass cleaved the black mist with sword light.

Chen Lin defeated the Bizarre Old Woman and learned that High Person Yunhai had also reached the Southern Star Realm. Yunhai told him the Starry Continent had collapsed, and Chen Lin anxiously asked who had escaped.

• Chen Lin used the Soul-Detaining Technique to seize the Bizarre Old Woman, repeatedly struck her with the Soul-Destroying Finger, and destroyed her after failing to search her remnant soul.
• Chen Lin collected a sealed black fingernail and a Black Round Bead, then prepared to leave the island with Grass.
• Several newcomers arrived, and Chen Lin recognized High Person Yunhai among them.
• High Person Yunhai confirmed that they were in the Southern Star Realm and said he had reached the nascent soul late stage.
• High Person Yunhai told Chen Lin that the Starry Continent had collapsed and billions of beings had perished; Chen Lin then asked who had escaped.

Chen Lin learned from High Person Yunhai that Luo Qinglan and the others had escaped their collapsing plane, but he also discovered that he was trapped in the White Bone Sage Lord's Dao Domain. Since he had been the first to see the White Bone Holy Ship, he would be forced aboard when it sailed, and High Person Yunhai proposed that they cooperate inside.

• High Person Yunhai told Chen Lin that Luo Qinglan, Qin Lingyu, and the others had escaped through an ancient altar, though he did not know which plane they had reached.
• Chen Lin introduced Grass to High Person Yunhai, then explained that he had arrived on the island through a plane node and had not known about the ship.
• High Person Yunhai revealed that they were trapped in the fallen White Bone Sage Lord's Dao Domain and that boarding the White Bone Holy Ship offered their only known way out.
• High Person Yunhai explained that the ship appeared once every ten years, selected thirty-six passengers, and guaranteed a place to the first person who saw it; Chen Lin realized he would be drawn aboard.
• Chen Lin and High Person Yunhai discussed the ship's dangers and rules, and High Person Yunhai proposed that they watch each other's backs and share any treasures they found.

Chen Lin joined High Person Yunhai’s proposed alliance but left after Gu Xuan’s advances toward Grass provoked her sword attack. When the White Bone Holy Ship selected its passengers, Chen Lin was drawn aboard while High Person Yunhai was left behind.

• Chen Lin agreed to cooperate with High Person Yunhai, and Gu Xuan arrived seeking an alliance with them.
• Gu Xuan flirted with Grass, who attacked him with her sword; Chen Lin warned Gu Xuan to be careful around her.
• Chen Lin sent Grass into the Nightmare Realm, questioned low-level cultivators for information, and waited offshore for the ship’s selection.
• The White Bone Holy Ship drew Chen Lin and many others aboard, then sailed away; High Person Yunhai and the unselected cultivators remained on the island.

Chen Lin explored the White Bone Holy Ship, where he discovered that his Soul-Destroying Finger could defeat its monsters and learned that entering the rooms transformed cultivators into monsters. As he questioned three survivors, a huge shadow arrived from the entrance, radiating terrifying pressure.

• Chen Lin found far more cultivators aboard the ship than expected, then entered the mist alone while they scattered in search of Boarding Tokens.
• Chen Lin used his Soul-Destroying Finger to kill an attacking skull and found a headless cultivator inside one of the bone-white rooms.
• Chen Lin killed a White-Haired Monster that had chased three Golden Core Cultivators and learned from them that a staircase led upward and that the rooms turned entrants into monsters.
• Chen Lin decided to focus on surviving the voyage rather than searching for tokens, but an enormous shadow emerged from the entrance as he questioned the survivors.

Chen Lin and Grass fought the towering Skeleton Monster, whose Bone Saber nearly killed Chen Lin before Grass destroyed it with a devastating sword strike. Chen Lin survived and discovered he could activate the Bone Saber with soul power, though he remained injured and Grass was exhausted.

• The Skeleton Monster attacked Chen Lin, and its Bone Saber knocked him through a door into a sealed room.
• Chen Lin summoned Grass from the Nightmare Realm and took a patterned bone from the room's table.
• Chen Lin and Grass attacked the Skeleton Monster together, but its red saber light grievously wounded Chen Lin.
• Grass unleashed a powerful sword strike that split the Skeleton Monster apart, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chen Lin recovered enough to collect the dead cultivators' belongings, inspected the monster's remains, and realized he could activate the Bone Saber with soul power.

Chen Lin claimed the soul-powered Bone Saber, collected and sealed bizarre bones from the ship’s rooms, and discovered a threatening stone statue near a staircase. Pursued by White Bone Monsters, he neutralized the statue with a Soul-Destroying Finger and fled through a Light Curtain at the top of the stairs.

• Chen Lin confirmed that the Bone Saber could channel soul power into attacks, but found the White Bone Token broken.
• Chen Lin explored the nearby rooms and realized their bizarre energy came from bones that could be fitted together, so he collected and sealed the bones he found.
• Chen Lin discovered that some rooms had been emptied of their bones and that their bizarre energy was fading; he also collected a skull and a Storage Bag from a headless corpse.
• Chen Lin found a stone statue like the one in the Dungeon of the Blood Handkerchief Scenario and retreated when he sensed powerful auras approaching.
• Chen Lin struck the statue with a Soul-Destroying Finger, rushed past it as White Bone Monsters pursued him, and plunged through the Light Curtain atop the stairs.

Chen Lin reached the ship’s deck, where a red gemstone exposed the demonic seed hidden in his nascent soul and provoked the Bone Bird to attack it. With Grass’s help, he escaped the ship as his nascent soul was being destroyed, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Chen Lin found Gu Xuan and several powerful cultivators aboard the fog-shrouded ship, then discovered that the red gemstone had chosen him.
• When Chen Lin circulated mana through the gemstone, its energy stirred the demonic seed in his nascent soul, and the Bone Bird attacked him with red light.
• The Bone Bird’s attack weakened Chen Lin’s nascent soul while the demonic seed resisted, and the surrounding cultivators fled rather than help.
• After Grass awakened and contacted him, Chen Lin ordered Grass to strike with a powerful sword attack and used Buddhist power to weaken the demonic seed.
• Chen Lin split his divine soul, and Grass’s sword light carried his body through the ship’s barrier and into the void.